This past Shabbat at Ansche Chesed, the feminist theologian Judith Plaskow was in our community, to celebrate a bat mitzvah with us. As we read Parashat Yitro – with relates the revelation of the 10 Commandments at Sinai – one sort of feels like it is Plaskow’s signature parasha, given the title of her most well-known […]
Archives for February 2012
Honest Again – Forward
I’ve been away from Honest to God for a few weeks, mostly working on a research project for another audience, but I’ll get back into the swing now, beginning with this. Last month I posted the earlier comment called “Not So Honest Kars-4-Kids” about the charity which would seem to be intentionally obscuring its Orthodox […]
Mishpatim
For a long-time now, Rabbi Danny Burkeman has been writing a weekly piece on the torah portion, but now it is available as a podcast. We hope you will enjoy it. http://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/JCastNetwork.com/storage/TwoMinutes/001.mp3Podcast: Download
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Episode Twenty-Seven: How To Emulate God
Can you take your capacity for bad and use it for good? What counts as “bad” and what counts as “good?” And how do you direct even your negative qualities toward positivity? Join Rabbi Knopf as he explores these questions in the 6th chapter of the Tomer Devorah by Rabbi Moses Cordovero. http://media.blubrry.com/jcasttotalfeed/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/jcastnetwork.com/storage/Tisch/027.mp3Podcast: Download
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Kosher Food and Wine Expo
This week, Aaron Heman had the opportunity to attend the ultimate kiddush. He had the opportunity to attend the 2012 Kosher Food and Wine Experience at Chelsea Piers. Hundreds of Jews from around the Tri-State area came to taste wines from all over the world and have amazing kosher food.
If you would like to order kosher wine, please visit Skyview Wine, at http://SkyViewWine.com or 888-SKY-VINO and tell them you heard of them from JCast Network.
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Two Jews On This Means War
Okay, so we have this cute girl who meets a sexy guy for coffee and they hit it off. A few minutes later (give or take) the same girl, meets another sexy guy, and they also hit it off. Now in any normal situation, the girl would probably date both guys, right? Well, in ‘This […]
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Mishpatim
“An eye for an eye – a tooth for a tooth” — the Lex Talionus. No commandment in the Torah is more misunderstood. As Ghandi is reputed to have said:”If every body followed this commandment, the whole world would be blind and toothless” (My paraphrase – no sources checked…) Jewish tradition has always understood this […]
Reaching Kitah Gimel: The “Kein-Lo” Game
The Kein – Lo Game Divide the class into two or more teams. Give each team 2 index cards, one white and one colored. On the white card is written the word “kein” in Hebrew, which means “yes.” On the colored card is written the word “lo” in Hebrew, which means “no.” Also write the […]
Introducing Smorgasbord
This episode of The JCast Journey, also serves as the first episode of Smorgasbord. In this episode, host Darone Ruskay talks about his experience recently at a lecture and a conversation he had afterwards.
While sitting at the lecture he wondered where a lecture like that one, could fit into JCast Network. And then afterwards, he spoke with someone who wanted to blog on JCast Network, but didn’t feel like he could take on a solo blog, but would prefer a group blog.
After thinking about both experiences, Darone decided it was time to launch “Smorgasbord”. Smorgasbord will be a podcast of “one-offs” interesting lectures, conversations, essays, interviews… Things that are not ready for their own podcast (although they may become one over time) but are important and interesting, and should be shared with the larger community.
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Episode Twenty-Three: Smorgasbord
In this episode of The JCast Journey, host Darone Ruskay talks about his experience recently at a lecture and a conversation he had afterwards. While sitting at the lecture he wondered where a lecture like that one, could fit into JCast Network. And then afterwards, he spoke with someone who wanted to blog on JCast […]
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